Ralf S. Engelschall:
Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Ralf S. Engelschall (born 1972, married, 3 children) is a computer scientist from Munich, Germany. He completed his study in Computer Science and Mathematics at Technische Universität München (TUM) in 1999.
As one of the founders of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), founder of the projects OpenSSL and OpenPKG and as the author of numerous tools, libraries, and frameworks, he is a recognized contributor to the Open Source software community since about 1991.
As a former software engineer at sd&m, as a former department manager of sd&m Research (later Capgemini CSD Research) and as the Director and Executive Consultant of msg Applied Technology Research, a unit of the msg Group, he is also a long lasting member of the Custom Software Development (CSD) industry since 1993.
Since over 25 years he is intensively involved in Web Technologies, Software Engineering and Software Architecture. This finally triggered his doctorate in the area of User Interface architecture in the years 2013 to 2018.